The statement by the fugitive's partner in the killing of the Renca police officer, who is said to have been baptized by the PCC

On the night of August 27, Carabineros deployed a large contingent in the Tierra del Fuego sector of Renca, following the murder of Corporal 2nd Class Alejandro Ortiz, who that afternoon was off duty and was killed by three individuals during the sale of a technological item. The attackers fled the scene, so the ECOH Prosecutor's Office ordered a series of procedures, such as canvassing residents and recovering camera footage. It was in this process that officers checked the identities of a number of people in the surrounding area. That is how a woman appeared on the map for the first time: Andrea Aguilar Carmona, who had already been mentioned by a confidential witness as the partner of one of the alleged attackers. According to her own words, the woman is the partner of Francisco Javier Rivera Galaz, alias "el Francis," a man who is currently a fugitive and whom the Prosecutor's Office has now given a new dimension: he would have been "baptized" by the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) —a Brazilian criminal organization— with the aim of finding refuge and remaining untraceable. Lieutenant Carlos Mesas was the one who checked the woman's identity, noting her annoyance at the police presence in the vicinity of her home. The officer's testimony is part of the investigative file to which La Tercera had access. The woman said her ID was at her home and that if they wanted it, they would have to go there. Upon arriving with the officers, according to the official's statement, the woman "started shouting and alerting all the neighbors about what was happening." Once inside the apartment, the officer observed that the woman kept her phone in her hand at all times. There, almost out of the corner of his eye, the investigator was able to see that the woman had had a conversation with a contact saved as "my love" (with a heart) and that there was a message related to deleting some selfies. That said, the officer himself stated, they found no items of interest in the apartment. After that encounter, the woman testified twice at the OS9. The first time as a witness and then as a defendant. Her testimonies The first time Aguilar testified at the OS9 was on August 28 at 2:00 p.m. She did so as a witness and denied having any relationship with the fugitive. She said she had "nothing to do with the people" who implicated her. She added that she feared retaliation against her family, but stated that she wanted to provide information. Aguilar stated that she had lived there for about seven or eight years and that on that day, August 27, she saw two people arrive at the block where she lives. She said she had known one of them for several years. That was Demmis Barrera, alias "el Demmi," the alleged perpetrator of the shots that killed the officer. Despite saying she had nothing to do with them, she let them into her apartment. It was at that moment that the men said they had killed the officer. In that statement, the woman did not mention her partner. But, according to other testimonies, the woman's presence was not as incidental as she claimed in that first moment. A confidential witness, number 4, said that Aguilar was "super problematic" and that that day she witnessed the planning of the burning of the truck they used to get around. That same witness said that Francis, who that day was wearing a brown jacket and a hat, unloaded weapons from the vehicle along with his partners in crime. Following the OS9's investigative work, the woman's procedural status changed from witness to defendant. She was questioned again on August 29 at 1:52 a.m. On that second occasion, she did mention her partner, Francis, with whom she said she had been in a relationship for a few months. She recounted that on August 27 she was in her apartment with the man, when suddenly he left: "Around 5:30 p.m., Francisco told me he was going out to hang out with some friends; he didn't tell me anything else, since it's normal for him to go out without telling me where." She also said she did not know where he got the white truck he was using, which was stolen. In that second testimony, she now said that those who arrived at her home were her partner and Claudio Alejandro Valdivia, alias "el Chure." That was when they said they had killed the officer. "I ran out of my apartment because I didn't know what to do. First to look for Chure's girlfriend, whom I know as Paola, and then to buy some pacifiers to calm the kids," the testimony reads. When she returned home, she said, the men were no longer there. She later saw her partner again in the parking lots, where he told her they would burn the truck they had been traveling in. After all that commotion, Aguilar said her partner arrived at the apartment around 2:00 a.m. to stay with her: "Then yesterday morning (August 28), we got up and around 10:00 a.m. Demis arrived and started talking with Francisco about what had happened. After a few minutes, he left." That would be the farewell between Aguilar, who is currently in pretrial detention, and Rivera. The investigation against the fugitive for the officer's murder, led by the ECOH Prosecutor's Office, is no longer related only to that event. Today it intersects with another being handled by the Sur Prosecutor's Office regarding the incursion of Brazil's Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) into Chile. According to those familiar with that organization, what its members do is precisely that: provide protection to those who are "baptized" in exchange for payment of a kind of membership fee. Rivera's whereabouts are currently unknown.